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Documentary on Near Death Experiences Dr. Maurice Rawlings, MD, a heart surgeon, has written a number of books on the death experience and clearly shows from his own practice and from the experiences of his patients, that not everyone goes to the light when they die, where there is total love. Many of his patients, after being resuscitated on the operating table, spoke about hell. [TBN Films]

This is a study on life after death. All through history man has predicted life after death. All bibles are based on life after death, all religions. But where are these? Who has come back to show us that there is life after death?Now through modern resuscitation methods, bringing the heart back, bringing breathing back, we can now bring a whole population of people back to talk to us about what’s on the other side of death.

See what you think about some of these cases that we are going to present. The good ones are a dime a dozen, because people love to tell about the wonderful experience they had after they died and came back.The Hell experiences are somewhat embarrassing. It’s an F on the report card, a slap in the face from God. We have some cases of people who will tell you about their own hell experiences, so that you won’t have to go where they went. We mainly want to teach you how to restart the heart; restart the breathing, on someone who has recently died.

Notice that death is reversible; you have 4 minutes of viable time before the brain cells start dying because of the lack of blood flow, and before rigor mortis sets in. I have seen 2 deaths, where resurrection was required, something that man can NOT do. We can only do resuscitation, something God has permitted us to do. How many hell experiences, have had a person's conversion and salvation while they were on the floor, and the person then only remember the good experiences? This was not the case in Ronald Reagan (Not associated with X-President Ronald Reagan) He had his little boy with him while going to a 7-11 store, he got into an argument, and there was a bottle broken, and he was stabbed multiple times by his assailant.

I know that I'm going to get hammered for this but here it goes anyway.

If they can resuscitate you then you haven't truly died. Only God can give back the life force so unless you believe that God is raising these people back from the dead like He did Lazarus then then these people haven't truly died. There is a reason why they are called "near death". So no they haven't been to the "other side"

Just because someone has an experience on the operating table doesn't mean it's true. There are all sorts of chemical processes going on. The body is doing strange things because it wasn't designed to have all the medications pumped into it. People have all kinds of "visions" and dreams and experiences while on drugs.

I haven't gone to do any digging on this but I'm willing to make an educated guess that there are other people not on the operating table or close to death have very similar experiences of going to a "light" or experience a "hell" in a dream.

Please don't get me wrong. I do not in anyway doubt their experience. I truly believe that they experienced something good or bad. I just don't accept their experience as basis for truths.

I know that I'm going to get hammered for this but here it goes anyway.

If they can resuscitate you then you haven't truly died. Only God can give back the life force so unless you believe that God is raising these people back from the dead like He did Lazarus then then these people haven't truly died. There is a reason why they are called "near death". So no they haven't been to the "other side"

Just because someone has an experience on the operating table doesn't mean it's true. There are all sorts of chemical processes going on. The body is doing strange things because it wasn't designed to have all the medications pumped into it. People have all kinds of "visions" and dreams and experiences while on drugs.

I haven't gone to do any digging on this but I'm willing to make an educated guess that there are other people not on the operating table or close to death have very similar experiences of going to a "light" or experience a "hell" in a dream.

Please don't get me wrong. I do not in anyway doubt their experience. I truly believe that they experienced something good or bad. I just don't accept their experience as basis for truths.

It's true because the bible says so.

Jesus presented the concept of life-after-death because it's true. If it were a lie, Jesus would not have told us so. The OT was a shadow of things to come, but the NT is a revelation of what has come -- and His name is Jesus. He brings divine truth.

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"So then, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter" (2 Thessalonians 2:15).

Zaph was questioning the experience not the reality of heaven or life after death.

I too hold subjective experiences a distant second to objective fact.

As an atheist, I believed that we ceased to exist after our mortal bodies die, sort of like removing the electricity from a computer. However, when I died, I immediately went to the gates of hell in the center of the earth. I was told that once I entered the gates, my fate would be sealed forever, so I began screaming, "Lord! Lord! I know You're real now! Please give me a second chance!" I was given a second chance and was returned to my mortal body. However, I proclaim that life after death is real because the bible says so and not because of my "subjective" [sic] experience.

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"So then, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter" (2 Thessalonians 2:15).

Unless the Lord resurrected you like He did Lazarus you didn't really die. If the doctors are able to bring you back you were not truly dead.

There is life after death but your experience doesn't prove or disprove it. There is life after death simply because the Bible tells us so. Even Peter acknowledges this fact. After referencing the transfiguration of Christ that he experienced with James and John he goes on to say this...

2Pe 1:19We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

Unless the Lord resurrected you like He did Lazarus you didn't really die. If the doctors are able to bring you back you were not truly dead.

There is life after death but your experience doesn't prove or disprove it. There is life after death simply because the Bible tells us so. Even Peter acknowledges this fact. After referencing the transfiguration of Christ that he experienced with James and John he goes on to say this...

2Pe 1:19We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:

What is better than experience or a miracle? God's Word!

That is the doctrine of soul sleep, which I utterly and completely reject, based on God's Word (of course).

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"So then, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter" (2 Thessalonians 2:15).

Because that's the doctrine of soul sleep i.e. in the doctrine of soul sleep, "death" does not come until after the Great White Throne Judgment when the souls of the damned are thrown into the Lake of Fire where they will cease to exist -- forever. That is "death" in the doctrine of soul sleep.

Thoughts?

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"So then, stand firm and hold to the traditions which you were taught by us, either by word of mouth or by letter" (2 Thessalonians 2:15).

I know that I'm going to get hammered for this but here it goes anyway.

If they can resuscitate you then you haven't truly died. Only God can give back the life force so unless you believe that God is raising these people back from the dead like He did Lazarus then then these people haven't truly died. There is a reason why they are called "near death". So no they haven't been to the "other side"

Just because someone has an experience on the operating table doesn't mean it's true. There are all sorts of chemical processes going on. The body is doing strange things because it wasn't designed to have all the medications pumped into it. People have all kinds of "visions" and dreams and experiences while on drugs.

I haven't gone to do any digging on this but I'm willing to make an educated guess that there are other people not on the operating table or close to death have very similar experiences of going to a "light" or experience a "hell" in a dream.

Please don't get me wrong. I do not in anyway doubt their experience. I truly believe that they experienced something good or bad. I just don't accept their experience as basis for truths.

Have you considered the difference between the death of our physical body and the second "death," as recorded in Rev.20:6 ? Our physical, perishable, mortal bodies all die, as recorded in 1 Cor.15:42-50. The spirit/soul, that can only be separated by God, according to Heb.4:12, never really dies, according t Jn.11:26, 2 Cor.5:6-8 as well as in Isa.66:24, Mk.9:48 and Mt.25:46. Review Jn.11:26.

Reference to Rev.20:14, where death is thrown into the lake of fire, means, there will be no more death, and the present age ends, along with the present heaven and earth, as recorded in Rev.21:1. When God will bring in the new eternal heaven and earth.

In connection with the cardiologist, Dr. Rawlings, who is the author of to "Hell and Back," when the vital signs of the subjects he characterized were flat zero, they were physically dead.

Quasar

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